Dalai Lama To Talk To China?

World News to Note

October 15, 2000

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, was quoted on Saturday as saying he was ready to open talks with China about the future of Tibet any time, without conditions. The Hungarian newspaper Nepszabadsag quoted the Dalai Lama, who fled from Tibet in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule, as saying during a visit to Hungary that his contacts with China, dropped in the 1980s, might be restored.